Take a look at "the diary of an EAP practitioner on a journey to self-educate". @SusieCowley takes articles from the EAP literature and reflects on them in terms of her own experience and outlook as an EAP professional.

A very welcome collection of webinars on EAP in places we don't often hear much about: Poland, Algeria, Rwanda and beyond. Congratulations to David Read and the team at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and to OUP for bringing this new event online - and free to all.

"Genre is a concept and construct that crosses disciplinary, national, methodological, conceptual, and pedagogical borders. The aim of "Genre across Borders" (GXB) is to advance genre theory and research by helping scholars and students cross these borders through access and scholarly contribution to reference guides and online networking"

Creative writers are accustomed to the idea that their writing must go through several drafts. However, much of the advice on offer to academic writers proceeds as if all they have to do is produce...

Steve Kirk's insight:

Don't edit. Don't edit. Don't edit. Revise. A great post from one of my favourite bloggers. If, like me, you're struggling with your own academic writing, this will come as a wake-up call. As EAP teachers also, however, how might we best bring our international students to an awareness of this essential facet of good writing?

English Communication for Scientists is a brief guide on how to communicate more effectively in English, no matter how much previous experience you have.

Steve Kirk's insight:

A six-unit online course in science-oriented writing. There are some interesting tips here for speakers of different languages...but no differentiation by academic discipline. Some generalisations do, of course, hold, however, and so there is some useful material here - if taken critically. See what you think.

Illustrations here and there by the Times Higher Education cartoonist, Jorge Cham.

"This workshop drew on the work of 2013 conference presenters as well as examples of research in French contexts to bring out specific traditions of research and teaching of academic or scientific writing and writing institution in contexts of "home" or primary institutional languages across Europe."

This is a great collection of learning resources, designed by Andy Gillet (@UEfAP | http://www.uefap.com/) for the British Council. The resources draw on the BAWE corpus work done by Hilary Nesi and Sheila Gardner, published as Genres across the Disciplines: Student Writing in Higher Education (CUP). Students (and teachers) can learn about the 13 genre families identified and their relevance to UK university study. The website materials are ESRC funded - and free for all to use.

A good read. This is a collection of ten short and personal research-oriented narratives from professionals working within EAP. Areas of focus range from assessment to teacher beliefs to programme management.

Academic Reading Circles (ARC)is an approach to assigning roles to EAP students for improvement of comprehension and engagement with texts. It's something Tyson (@seburnt) speaks and writes about widely.Check out his website and blog for more if you're interested - http://fourc.ca

A long overdue initiative to bring together students, researchers, practitioners and other professionals in English for Academic Purposes, to talk around issues of doctoral studies - Starting out, developing, failing, failing better, collaborating...and staying proudly in the field after completing, such that we change things from the inside.

The critical grounded theory presented in this book offers valuable insights on the social processes and strategies used by Blended English for Academic Purposes Professionals (BLEAPs) at higher education institutions, as they struggle to negotiate

Steve Kirk's insight:

PDF copy of this excellent book. Available via Gregory Hadley's Academia.edu site. I bought the hardback and ordered a copy for our university library. This should be on everyone's reading list. Important work. Thanks to @muranava for bringing my attention to this version, and to @alexanderding for recommending the book in the first place.

Ray Carey and colleagues are "compiling a corpus of these English-language examiners’ statements submitted in 2011 & 2012 to six University of Helsinki faculties. We finished this task last month, ending up with 402,0135 words of text (the WrELFA corpus overall has passed 800,000 words since my last update). During that process, Ruut compiled figures from each of the faculties on how many examiners’ statements were submitted and what language they were written in. This post looks at where English stands in the examination process of one of the top research universities in Europe."

The Journal of Academic Writing is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the teaching, tutoring, researching, administration and development of academic writing in higher education in Europe.

Steve Kirk's insight:

Vol 3, No1 of the The Journal of Academic Writing (produced by EATAW) is a special issue on the area of 'integrating content and language in higher education (ICLHE)', with a focus on student learning and academic writing. The journal is open source and thus available to all.

This is the opening keynote address at the EATAW conference in Hungary, held 26-29 June 2013. In an antidote to the omnipresence of ENGLISH for Academic Purposes in most of what we read (and perhaps think), Paul Kei Matsuda considers the importance of other languages for academic purposes.

This is an online corpus that has been hand-annotated for all metaphorical language use. It covers four broad registers: academic texts, fiction, newspaper texts, and conversation - and can be used to generate tables and concordances by genre. The corpus is creative commons licensed, so open to use. The underlying work is presented in the book, Steen et al (2010) 'A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification' (John Benjamins - here: http://bit.ly/16dGCEB).

Metaphor is everywhere and it perhaps underexploited in EAP teaching and learning. Might this be a useful tool for the EAP practitioner?

This is a panel discussion on the history of EAP and of BALEAP, organized and chaired by Richard Smith. Panellists: John Swales, Andy Gillett and Meriel Bloor. The discussion was held at the Biennial BALEAP Conference (‘The Janus Moment in EAP: Revisiting the Past and Building the Future’), University of Nottingham, 20 April 2013.

You can listen to an audio-recording of the panel discussion (1hr 25 min) by clicking on the photo on the website.

Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.

Integrating your curated content to your website or blog will allow you to increase your website visitors’ engagement, boost SEO and acquire new visitors. By redirecting your social media traffic to your website, Scoop.it will also help you generate more qualified traffic and leads from your curation work.

Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy.